Poythress, Minnie “Wife of G. H. Poythress”
25 September 1879-27 August 1924
Died
August 21 1916
Age
18 years
(Coping
around grave and in coping at the foot: “Mother”)
William
H. Poythress
Born
December 15, 1848
Died
June 5, 1927
Janie
E. Poythress
Born
April 23, 1863
Died
March 10, 1928
(Coping
around both graves and engraved at foot opposite above are “Father” and
“Mother”)
Born
November 11, 1935
Died
November 12, 1935
1911-
1975
(Metal
undertaker marker)—or
T.
Milton Poythress
10
November 1911-9 August 1975
March
18, 1925
Mary
Elizabeth Zipperer Poythress
Born
October 10, 1873
Died
October 17, 1954
“Wife”
John
Addison Poythress
Born
July 4, 1890
Died
March 2, 1960
“Husband”
T/SGT
U. S. Army WW II
19
September 1917 – 15 December 1975
John
R. Conner
Born
October 11, 1843
Died
July 29, 1895
“Lovingly
Remembered”
George
L. son of
J.
P. and Mattie Conner
Born
May 3, 1894
Died
August 1, 1895
In
Memory Of
Ada
M. Conner
Born
August 3, 1876
Died
May 23, 1891
“Our
home is dark without cheer
We
miss you everywhere”
In
Memory of
Mary
E. Poythress (m. Horace
Cullen Poythress)
Born
nee Mercer (daughter of
John H. Mercer & Susan J. Mercer?)
March
10, 1846
Died
December 16, 1899
“He
giveth His Beloved Sleep”
Psalm
127, Verse 2
In
Memory of
Lillian
M. Conner
Born
September 4, 1862
Died
October 28, 1889
John
W. Mercer
Born
June 6, 1849
Died
March 30, 1899
John
H. Mercer
Born
December 25, 1820
Died
July 7, 1895
W.
M. Wells
March
25, 1850
March
31, 1901
In
Memory of
Silas
L. son of
J.
R. and S. A. Conner
July
8, 1878
July
4, 1885
Leslie
Matthew
Son
of Mr. and Mrs.
G. L.
Williams
September
18, 1900
February
24, 1913
Catharine
V., dau. of
John
R. & Susan Conner
Born
November 16, 1860
Departed
this life
March
12, 1882
In
Memory of
Mehala
E. A. dau. of
John
H. and Susan J. Mercer
Who
was born August 10, 1850 and
Departed
this life February 13, 1856
Infant
of John H. and Susan J. Mercer
Was
born September 3, 1851 and
Died
September 4th. Aged 1 day
Sacred
to the Memory of
Mrs.
Susan J. Mercer
Wife
of John H. Mercer
Who
was born July 13, 1816
And
departed this life
December
29, 1863
John
H. Mercer (m. Susan Conner, dau. of Lewis Conner?)
December
25, 1820
July
7, 1895
“Crossed
over the river and resting
under
the shade of the tree.”
In
Memory of
Samuel
U. Grosse
Born
September 30, 1888 (1883?)
Died
October 26, 1888 ( 1883?)
Edna
B. Grosse
Born
September 5, 1872
Died
November 17, 1901
GROSS
Sallie
Mercer Gross
May
2, 1847
August
24, 1915
GROSSE
Maude,
wife of Harper L. Proctor, M. D.
April
23, 1888
June
8, 1916
Otherwise
unidentified marble tombstone initials E. V. G.
In
Memory of
Bessie
M. Gross
Born
August
5, 1877
Died
September
10, 1877
December
14, 1844
September
11, 1894`
(Georgia
Hway 24, Newington Highway)
Horace
C. Poythress [Cullen]
Jan
23, 1867
June
8, 1918
Now
thou art gone beyond the reach of woe,
Where
sorrow’s tears shall ever cease to flow.
Flossie
O.
wife
of
H.
C. Poythress
Oct
8, 1878
Nov
7, 1914
William
H. Bazemore
Mar
5 1852
May
30 1926
His
toils are past his work
is
done
He
fought the fight the
victory
won
Fannie
Wells Bazemore
Jan
30, 1859
Feb
26 1939
Her
devotion was life’s
greatest
blessing,
Her
memory is our
truest
inspiration
Myrtice
L. Poythress [daughter of HCP above]
Feb.
26, 1913
June
10, 1984
Reddick
Etta P. Capus
L.
Oct
25 1902 May
20, 1901
July
15, 1974 Mar
1, 1971
[daughter
of HCP above]
POYTHRESS
Daniel
W. Poythress, Jr. Leila H.
Poythress
June
17, 1878 Apr 26, 1874
Oct
10, 1950 Mar 9, 1928
At Rest At Rest
FATHER MOTHER [Daniel W. Poythress brother
Daniel
W.
Laura of John Maner
Poythress(1)and
Poythress wife of son of Meredith Poythress, Jr.,
Feb 26, 1838 D. W. Laura was a Scott]
Nov 15, 1922 Poythress
Gone but not Apr 17, 1846
forgotten Dec 11, 1919
Gone but not forgotten
POYTHRESS
Edmund
B. Gross
1818-1890
Susan
Mercer
Gross
1824-1902
REDDICK
Lennie
Laura Alice Poythress [Alice Helen Poythress
Reddick wife of sister of Horace Cullen
June
23, 1876 P. A. Reddick Poythress and daughter of
Nov
1, 1951
May 11, 1855 John Maner
Poythress(1)]
Sept 25, 1904
Though Lost __?___ __?__ ____ Memory Dear
Daughter Mother
(footstone) (footstone)
W.
H. Reddick
1864-1935
Talulah
Wells Reddick
1877-1950 (sister of Flossie O.?)
Poythress
Thomas
Boston Julia Ann Usher
April
7, 1860 Feb. 6, 1873
"Father" "Mother"
May
they find Joy in Life Everlasting
Sheddie
W. Poythress
Son
of T. B. & Julia Poythress
b. July10, 1902
d July 21, 1903
Falligant Bessie Poythress
Wm.
Joseph wife
Nov.
15, 1878
Feb.
11, 1943
.
Jan
2, 1867
Feb
10, 1935
April
28, 1861
May
2, 1946
Ina
M. Poythress
Daughter
of T. B. & Julia A. Poythress
5-19-1904
to 2-12-1905
Double
grave:
William
E. Poythress
Born
July 11, 1833
Died
December 23, 1907
He
lived as he died, a Christian
&
Martha
J. Poythress
June
4, 1841
December
8, 1935
A
Tender Mother, faithful to Her Trust, even unto Death
Sacred
to the memory of
Idella
Poythress
b.
Jan 5, 1867 (1859?)
d
Jan. 26, 1883
(note
Idella was daughter of William and Martha above)
A
single, large triple marker:
POYTHRESS
Thomas
Ralph Joann Verna Mae Bryant
1936-1937 1908-1945 1897-1946
POYTHRESS
Bessie M. James
C.
March 26, 1887 November
21, 1885
August 11, 1966 July
20, 1950
A
single, large double marker:
POYTHRESS
Gazzie H. Beulah
B.
February 22, 1879 November
19, 1896
February 4, 1969 February
6, 1982
Frank
Poythress
November
22, 1885
September
18, 1977
A
single, large marker:
PITTS
James T. Magnolia P.
March 3, 1853 January 8, 1886
April 17, 1937 February 11, 1945
(note:
Magnolia (Poythress) Pitts was the daughter of John White and Martha Virginia/”Virgin”
Poythress. The Frank Poythress above is
Magnolia’s brother
and
Frank is buried in with the Pitts family).
A
single large marker:
FALLIGANT
William Joseph Bessie Poythress
November 15, 1878 August
4, 1886
February 11, 1943 February 6, 1980
Louise
Poythress Lee
January
18, 1922
(no
death date given)
Sacred
to the Memory of
Isaac
Wilder
Died
July 12, 1881
Aged
56 years, 3 mo.,18 days
In
Memory of
H.
J. Poythress
Born
July 9, 1875
Died
October 9, 1876
Wife
of
Geo.
Poythress of
Burke
County
Who
departed this life
December
24, 1818
It
is suggested that George Poythress and wife Hetty (mother of John Carter
Poythress went to Savannah for a Christmas holiday where she contracted
Typhoid
fever and died. She was buried in the
typhus section as was required by law at the time. (Source: “Some Early
Epitaphs in Georgia”, compiled by the Georgia Society of Colonial Dames, Mrs.
Peter W. Meldrin, Historian).
(location off Rifle Road in Screven County) Write up below includes genealogy notes)
D.
A. R. cemetery surveys covered in two volumes, 1955-57.
November 27, 1813
February 17, 1803
July 24, 1888 June 19, 1874
Rest Mother, rest in Rest Father, rest in
quiet sleep, quiet sleep,
While friends in Sorrow While friends in Sorrow
O’er thee Weep
O’er thee Weep
[footstone: M. S.] [footstone: D. S.]
[single stone]
March 23, 1846 March 10, 1838
January 27, 1921 September 2, 1902
She is safe in She is safe in
her Father’s home above her Father’s home above
In Memory In Memory
of
of
John M. Poythress Rhoda E. Poythress
Born Born
July 26, 1832 March 28, 1828
Died
Died
October 1, 1866 May 9, 1884
Quiet rest our Quiet rest our
Angel Father Angel Mother
[footstone: J. M. P.] [footstone: R. E. P.]
[following is contemporary granite
veteran’s marker placed 16 Aug 1998]
JOHN M POYTHRESS
PVT CO D 47 GA INF
CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY
JUL 26 1832 OCT 1 1866
of
J. W. Poythress
Born
March 21, 1865
Died
May 4, 1877
Gross
William Gross
?/?/1825
?/?/1886
[note: above from headstone fragments;
also, the 1886 is questionable]
Ann A. Gross
March 25, 1825
June 20, 1912
The
Mills portion of this cemetery is contained in a concrete block wall 4 feet in
height built as an outside perimeter to what was the original area enclosed by
6” marble coping 23’ x 25’. This area contains the graves of Stephen B. Mills
and his wife Fannie D. Mills, along with what may be inferred (from the text
and stone sizes) to be four children lost in infancy.
There
are no inscriptions other than those shown.
[first
is double headstone, others single]
Stephen B. Mills
Fannie D. Mills
March 3, 1851 October 3, 1850
January 11, 1900 September 17, 1897
Belle
Elizabeth
daughter of daughter of
S. B. & Fannie Mills S. B. & Fannie Mills
Sallie
Francis
daughter of son of
S. B. & Fannie Mills S. B. & Francis Mills
Sanders
In my Father’s House are
Many Mansions
Hattie Sanders
October 31, 1869
April 16, 1903
“At Rest”
Infant of D. W. &
Hattie Sanders
Apr 13, 1903
Apr 13, 1903
“Our Little Daughter”
Genealogy
notes on individuals interred:
Scott
Dennis
Scott was the son of James Scott
b.1760-1770 d. 1832 m.1 Sarah
Brunson, m.2 Clarissa Harden, m.3 Temperence Rawls). After the death of James
Scott, Temperence m.2 7 Nov 1833 Lewis
Powell. Son Dennis Scott married
Martha Gross 13 Sep 1833. Martha
(Gross) Scott (1813-1888) was the daughter of William Gross who m. Harriet
Burns ca 1814.
Martha Ann Scott and Mary Virginia Scott (sisters) were unmarried daughters of Dennis Scott and Martha (Gross) Scott.
Poythress
John
Maner Poythress was the son of Meredith Poythress, Jr. m.2 Susan R. Maner. Contemporaneous material states that John
Poythress died in 1866 of yellow fever contracted in the War for Southern
Independence.
Rhoda
E. (Gross) Poythress was the daughter of William H. Gross and his wife, Harriet
Burns Gross (d. 1849). Rhoda Gross
married John Maner Poythress on 5 Apr 1854.
A
son born after the death of his father John Maner Poythress, Horace Cullen
Poythress (1867-1918) m.2 Flossie O. Wells (1878-1914). Both are buried at McBride Methodist Church
Cemetery. At the present time (1998) a
Poythress/Wells family reunion has been held continuously in Sylvania for over
50 years. In recent years the site has
been the Meeting Room of McBride Methodist Church. Included in this group are many representatives of the historic
Screven County families of Bazemore, Reddick, Austin, Godbie and Poythress.
The grave of J. W. Poythress is that of John Willie Poythress, a son of John Maner and Rhoda (Gross) Poythress who died in childhood.
Gross
William
Gross (1825-18??) is very tentatively presumed to be a brother of Rhoda Gross.
Ann A. Gross is an unmarried sister of Rhoda Gross. Records indicate that the tomb of Kissiah Gross, another unmarried sister, is also supposed to be in this cemetery. Her headstone was not located.
Mills
Stephen
B. Mills would very likely be the son of Stephen Mills II. Stephen
Mills
II was the son of Stephen Mills, Sr. and Sarah Kemp (the daughter
of
Solomon and Sarah (Freeman) Kemp (m. 15 Sep 1825).
This
Stephen B. Mills married 1.Frances Scott 8 Dec 1868, shown on her
tombstone
as Fannie D. Mills and married 2.Florence Brunson. None of the
names
on the four infant graves in this cemetery agree with any of the ten
children of Stephen B. Mills and Frances Scott Mills as listed in the History of Screven County, Georgia (pg. 226). Perhaps the case is that the SCoGaH author did not have access to the names of the four children who died in infancy.
Sanders
Hattie
Poythress Sanders is the daughter of Daniel W. Poythress and
Laura
(Scott) Poythress. Hattie Poythress m.
David W. Sanders, Jr.
(b. 1874) on 26 April 1900. The gravestone of their infant daughter (b. and d. 13 April 1903) would suggest that Hattie Sanders Poythress’ death three days later resulted from complications of childbirth.
Restoration
of cemetery by Donald W. Bazemore
Write-up
by: John M. Poythress
Donald
Webster Bazemore and John M.
Poythress
are respectively the great-
great
grandson and great grandson
of
John Maner Poythress.
Corrections
or additions to this
material
are welcomed; please
contact:
John
M. Poythress
2903
Glen Hill Court
Louisville,
KY 40222-6159
e-mail: vkratliff@aol.com
Date
18 February, 1999
USGS
7.5’ Topo
Jacksonboro
Bridge Quadrangle
(N32-47-27xW81-35-45)t
(West
from city limits of Sylvania, GA for 10.9 miles to junction of U. S. 301 and
State Highway 17, turn right for 2 miles.
Cemetery approximately 200 yards from highway)
Hope
Brannen
May
9, 1844
January
10, 1894
Aged
52 years
Sarah
Cooper Brannen (on same stone with Hope Brannen above)
December
10, 1850
April
27, 1918
Hope
C. Brannen
Born
October 29, 1877
Died
April 27, 1910
Welbourne
T. Brannen
Born
January 18, 1887
Died
January 16, 1914
H.
J. Poythress
Born
July 9, 1875
Died
October 9, 1875
Z.
L. Poythress
Born
April 16, 1873
Died
March 15, 1874
L.
C. Poythress
Born
November 17, 1871
Died
November 17, 1872
Waynesboro Confederate
Memorial Cemetery, Waynesboro, Ga.
John
Carter Poythress
Born
September 14, 1796
Died
September 12, 1862
Oak Hill Baptist Church, Jenkins County, Millen, Georgia
SIDNEY
PAYTHRESS
June
16, 1889
Feb.
26, 1916
Asleep
in Jesus
Blessed
Sleep
ARTHUR
PAYTHRESS
June
6, 1896
Mar.
19, 1922
Gone
But Not
Forgotten
JAMES T.
POYTHRESS
FEB.
27, 1887
MAR.31,1924
RACHEL
F. POYTHRESS
BORN MAY
1860
DIED
OCT. 8, 1938
IN
MEMORY OF
MY
HUS. N. H.
POYTHRESS
JUNE
7, 1861
JAN.
6, 1908
There
will be
no
sorrow there
MABEL
E.
POYTHRESS
MAR.
1, 1913
GORDON
E.
POYTHRESS
AUG.
20, 1912
AUG.
19, 1972
OUR MOTHER
LUCY
LIVELY DALEY
POYTHRESS
AUG. 20, 1867
JAN. 28, 1966
MARTHA
WIFE OF
_____ POYTHRESS
MAR. 19, 1871
JUNE.
24, 1909
LEE
A. POYTHRESS
DEC. 25, 1861
JAN. 6,1938
INFANT
DAUGHTER
OF
L. A. & S. P.
POYTHRESS
JUNE
24, 1909
JULY
10, 1909
"From
Newingtoncross railroad on Route 24, pass North Newington Baptist Church and
travel about 1 1/2 miles to first dirt road to right. Continue for 3 miles to home of Lloyd Pryor. This cemetery is back of the Pryor home in a
field. The graves were placed there
when the church was located there.
Today practically all of the tombstones are are fairly well
preserved. Mr. Pryor has carefully left
the graves to rest in peace." (John
Robert Peavy 20 May, 1999).
Scott Cemetery, Rifle Road,
Sylvania, Georgia (Screven County)
Ann
A. Gross
March
25, 1825
June
20, 1912
“Asleep
in Jesus”
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